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Live liver donor mortality

โœ Scribed by See Ching Chan; Sheung Tat Fan


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
39 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
1527-6465

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โœฆ Synopsis


issue of Liver Transplantation has an inaccuracy in the last row of Table 1. The reference quoting Beavers et al. 2 included 2 donor deaths (1 from Hamburg 3 and the other North Carolina 4 ). The review by Beavers et al. 2 did report our live donor liver transplantation experience of the late 1990s, 5,6 but we did not have any donor mortality in that period. Only in the year 2004, was a 50-yr-old female right liver donor was readmitted 10 weeks after surgery for fever, chills, and hematemesis. She did not have a history of peptic ulcer and was asymptomatic after the donor operation. Tachycardia, hypotension, and anemia all pointed to the diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. She developed convulsion and cardiac arrest upon upper endoscopy. Attempts of resuscitation were futile. Postmortem revealed a duodenocaval fistula that was conducive to an air embolism during upper endoscopy, resulting in the rapid demise of the donor. She had received 2 weeks of H 2 antagonist after the donor operation. This was a late donor mortality. 7 All of the other live liver donors in our series are well. It is also worth noting that the review by Beavers et al. 2 did not mention any donor mortality from Argentina or Korea.


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